IBM's Pen-based Notebook Runs Dry
News Sometimes the keyboard is mightier than the pen: IBM has discontinued its ThinkPad TransNote, a portable PC that also captures notes jotted on paper. The company introduced the TransNote a year ago with great fanfare.
[February 5, 2002, 9:51]
Big Blue Introduces No-tech Notebook
News The TransNote combines IBM's ThinkPad mininotebook with a scribble pad that can translate and record notes written on paper to the PC. TransNote owners will be able to enter data via a keyboard, a touch screen or by writing with a pen on a pad of...
[January 12, 2001, 9:48]
IBM: A Wearable World Beyond Your Clamshell
News IBM's first volley in this transition away from typical designs will be the ThinkPad TransNote, which the company will begin selling later this month. In focus groups, we would bring out the TransNote, and people would say, 'That's enough.
[February 8, 2001, 10:11]
Logitech Pen Aims To Have The Write Stuff
News Cross' CrossPad and IBM's ThinkPad TransNote, a laptop computer with a digital pen and notebook attached. About the size of a standard ballpoint, the Io captures and stores a digital version of a person's handwritten notes.
[September 19, 2002, 9:30]
The ThinkPad At 15
Blog Neither the expanding 'butterfly' keyboard on the 1995 701 series (a great piece of industrial design) nor 2001's TransNote — a combination of tablet-style computer and conventional paper — stood the test of time; the same goes for the 755CDV with...
[July 19, 2007, 16:24]
IBM Test-drives Transformer Computer
News Other designs, such as IBM's recently mothballed ThinkPad TransNote, were less successful. IBM Research is experimenting with a chameleon-like computing device called the Meta Pad, designed to easily convert from a desktop machine to a handheld to...
[February 7, 2002, 9:38]
Microsoft Taps Execs To Test Tablet PCs
News IBM recently phased out its ThinkPad TransNote, a machine that captured handwriting written with a special pen, and Sony put the kibosh on its high-end Vaio Slimtop Pen Tablet PC. Microsoft is planning to hand out tablet PCs to attendees at its CEO...
[May 22, 2002, 16:22]
IBM Merges Desktop And Laptop Divisions
News The new move also indicates IBM plans to focus much more on different types of devices that transcend typical PC designs, as it did with the ThinkPad TransNote. IBM on Monday consolidated its desktop and notebook units in what analysts characterise...
[April 3, 2001, 14:56]
Tablet PCs Starting To Take Off
News IBM dropped the TransNote, a ThinkPad that had let users input notes by writing on a paper pad with a special pen. Fujitsu will unveil a prototype of a tablet PC next week, sources close to the company said, one of a new breed of computers that...
[June 21, 2002, 14:35]
The Incredible Shrinking PC
News IBM recently phased out its ThinkPad TransNote, a machine that captures handwriting jotted with a special pen. Antelope Technologies will build hand-size PCs based on a computer design from IBM as the mini-mini-mini-computer market takes shape.
[May 23, 2002, 10:43]
IBM Floats New ThinkPad Prototypes
News IBM discontinued its ThinkPad TransNote, a product that combined an ultralight ThinkPad with a legal pad, after about a year. IBM will unveil two prototype ThinkPad notebook PCs today, designed to illustrate how laptops could be designed to fit...
[September 16, 2003, 10:35]
Tablet PC Gets A Boost From Dell Veterans
News IBM recently phased out its ThinkPad TransNote, a machine that captures handwriting jotted with a special pen. A group of former Dell Computer executives is putting in motion a new company to tackle the tablet PC market.
[May 21, 2002, 7:32]
Fifteen Years Of ThinkPad Highs And Lows
News February 2001 saw IBM showing off more wearable designs, but such concepts went the way of another idea, the ThinkPad TransNote. Although it let users input data via jotting notes on paper, the idea never caught on and the TransNote line was...
[July 20, 2007, 14:56]
